Monday, Jan. 22, 1945
Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk, Va.
Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago.
Killed in Action. William Henry Chickering, 28, TIME war correspondent; by enemy air action; in Lingayen Gulf (see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER).
Died. Baroness Robert de Rothschild, 58, chic, platinum-haired, prewar Paris socialite, wife of international banker Baron Robert de Rothschild; after long illness; in Manhattan. Before the Nazis took Paris in 1940, the De Rothschilds abandoned their famed Avenue Marigny town house, fled to the U.S. with their two daughters (two sons, both lieutenants in the French Army, are prisoners of war).
Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact age.
Died. James Evans ("Jim") Crown, 71, lusty, blustery, fighting editor of the New Orleans States, who broke the graft story that toppled the Huey Long empire; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A crusader for enforcement of the gambling laws, Jim Crown gave up drinking and smoking, but kept a copy of Racing Form tucked in his office Bible.
Died. Margaret W. Deland, 87, popular novelist of the '90s (John Ward, Preacher; Old Chester Tales); in Boston. A serene, soft-spoken gentlewoman, whose fictional probing into social problems shocked her generation, she had a stock comeback which usually silenced prudish critics: "Does it make wickedness attractive? If so, it is an immoral book."
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